Wired is reporting on a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Texas against Verizon and its now spun-off directory division Idearc. The suit (PDF file) claims infringement of patent 5,930,474, “Internet organizer for accessing geographically and topically based information.” This goes to the essence of many if not most local search sites online today. […]
From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google’s plans for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what other states it has conquered […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
The Natural Search Blog documented their undercover tour of a new Google office in Dallas, Texas – that appears to be the new home of the Google Audio group. Here are some of their findings: Small cube space Very short dividing walls Little privacy Most cubes are in 4 work group blocks Nice spy work!
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
This is a funny one. InfoWorld reports a network infrastructure manager for a school district in Texas who manages 9,000 employees and 64,000 students recently changed the IP block they use to a new IP block. Since that change, anyone using Google within that IP block would be sent to Google Canada. Google Canada does […]
PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users. PublicRoutes.com is available for New York, […]